JOHN EVELYN Evelyn bridged the transition from the formal to the landscape garden. The stiff artificiality of the Tudor garden became mitigated in the still formal but magnificent designs and perspectives of the French school, and the smaller Dutch characteristics of clipped trees. The reaction then began in favour of landscape gardening. This was carried to excess by Kent5 who broke up every straight line and created such havoc with the old formations that a Frenchman of the period declared that in order to design an English or natural garden all that was required was to intoxicate your gardener and follow in his footsteps. The artificiality against which the reaction set in included of course the clipping of trees, which had been done to excess. Pope ridiculed it in his amusing "Catalogue of Greens/' which began: ceAdarn and Eve in Yew. Adam a little shattered by the fall of the Tree of Knowledge in the great storm; Eve and serpent very flourishing. The Tower of Babel, not yet finished, St. George in Box; his arms scarce long enough but will be in condition to stick the dragon next April. A green dragon of the same with a tail of ground ivy for the present , . ." With the experience he gained by visiting a very large number of gardens at home and abroad* Evelyn combined a sound and scientific knowledge of culture* But what places him in the front rank is his very sure sense of proportion—the relative size and value of different parts of a garden. He certainly liked garden ornament, but he knew how it should 292